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We first came into contact with BenQ when it clearly wanted to be a consumer electronics company. The firm spent a lot of money on marketing and bought the Siemens mobile phone business which then collapsed in 2006. Since then, the company has re-grouped around its display products and has shifted its emphasis to B2B … Read more
Marking the company’s entrance into the European mobile phone market, Kyocera’s Torque smartphone (KC-S701) is a rugged model meeting the MIL-STD-810 standard in 11 categories. These categories include dust, shocks, vibrations, humidity and immersion. Designed for use in challenging environments, the Torque can be sprayed with or immersed in up to 1.5m of water for … Read more
Our visit to Crestron was a bit of a frustration. We went a couple of times to make an appointment to hear about the latest technology, but we were basically abandoned on the booth. Staff, who were stood around in some numbers, did not seem interested in talking to us! Never mind, we found a … Read more
Global Display Solutions entered a partnership with E Ink following ISE 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 9), and has been developing products for the last two years. At ISE 2014, it showed two side-by-side E Ink displays for signage, and announced its aim to develop a ‘basic colour’ unit by the end of the … Read more
According to an opinion article written by Alan Wolk of TDG Research, Netflix is facing two serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, which has long term implications for its business.
According to data from MM Research Institute, shipments of flip-phones rose in Japan last year, for the first time in seven years, while smartphone shipments fell. Flip-phones were up 5.7% YoY, to 10.6 million, while smartphones were down 5.3% to 27.7 million. Years of deflation and the presence of Japanese brands in the flip-phone market … Read more
Vestel is one of the largest OEMs in Europe, and is deeply involved in Turkey’s Fatih Project. However, the company was at ISE to talk signage. The newest of Vestel’s displays on show was a range of OPS monitors (in 32″, 40″, 50″ and 65″ sizes), which are available now and seeing heavy use in … Read more
Planar was clearly positioning itself at the show as the specialist in UltraHD and told us that all the displays that it was showing were UltraHD resolution (although this didn’t apply to the transparent OLED). First, we looked at the 55″ transparent OLED panel that we previewed on our front page a couple of weeks … Read more
Aoto’s stand was dominated by a curved 1.2mm-pitch LED display, part of the M Series (1mm – 16mm). However, it was not the main attraction. The most interesting product that Aoto was showing was a 65″ TV, using LEDs instead of an LCD panel. The Commercial LED Display (CLD) had a ‘very low’ pixel pitch, … Read more
Panasonic had a re-located booth this time – it was said to be bigger than last year’s. There was an impressive demo of projection mapping onto a Tesla and we made a short video of it. We met up with Enrique Robledo to look around the flat panel products. Panasonic has a new software platform … Read more
Augmented reality headsets either try to be very subtle in appearance, as in the sunglasses styles, or try to provide a superior optical performance without looking at the aesthetic consequences. In this group are the fighter pilot helmets, for example. The new Seer headset also falls into this latter category. The Seer headset by Caputer … Read more
Barco’s space-themed stand welcomed us with big LED displays and a really immersive example of a dome projection. The X-1.6 is part of a new high-end LED display range, the X Series, that was seen as a concept at Infocomm. Each module is 400 x 450mm, and several were held in one of Barco’s OBLX … Read more
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